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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 8 – May 8, 2021 804 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 128 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

  2. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

  3. My Current HTML Boilerplate

  4. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

Show 10 more
  1. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

  2. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

  3. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

  4. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

  5. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

  6. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

  7. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

  8. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

  9. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

  10. Starting a crypto project

Sports 37 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

  2. Coinbase from YC to DPO

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  1. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  2. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

  3. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

  4. How Tech Loses Out

  5. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

  6. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance

Technology 601 stories

  1. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

  2. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

  3. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

Show 9 more
  1. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

  2. Internal Combustion Engine

  3. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

  4. Just Be Rich

  5. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

  6. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

  7. Why Lichess will always be free

  8. Dan Kaminsky has died

  9. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

  2. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

  2. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

  3. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

  4. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

  5. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

  6. Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

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